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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - REMOVAL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE THEATER: THE DEATH OF OSCEOLA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The theater was packed, and just before the curtain rose
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


END OF THE RANGE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep ye protein herders weep
Last Line: And the foreigners are fighting back
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Native Americans - Removal


FULL CIRCLE: THE CONNECTICUT CASINO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O / o / o the first full moon of the year 2000
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds!
Last Line: The stalwart jason lee.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


OLD CHEROKEE WOMAN'S SONG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have taken my land
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


PRAIRIE CHICKEN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at him there in that prairie dirt
Last Line: He looks for another prairie chicken
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


THE BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


THE COSMIC TRAIL, by EDWIN M. ABBOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I have thought so long on greater
Last Line: The landscape widens as I onward go.
Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


THE CROSSING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That winter the southern land had all the contours
Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


THE FATED RACE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood on the banks of the klickitat
Last Line: Must sink beneath the flood.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oregon; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal


THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust
Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


VICTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O rock-ribbed city of the western sea
Last Line: "guard well ""britannia's far-flung battle line!"
Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States